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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by rosndo »

konschubert wrote: post #10

I make this e-paper calendar: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... It syncs with Google Calendar. To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings . If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment. EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

You could work on the aesthetics and increase your prices by 10-100x.

There’s a decent market for vaguely similar artworks, https://shop.madgallery.ch/products/clockclock-24

https://shop.madgallery.ch/products/nixie-time-zone-clock-v2

https://qlocktwo.com/us/qlocktwo-large-creators-edition-glin...

https://clockforward.com/etch-clock/

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by grwthckrmstr »

ohlookcake wrote: post #474
grwthckrmstr wrote: post #467

I have two such side projects that run almost passively, neither is an app though. 1- An extremely simple habit tracker spreadsheet template that I also use myself - https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-template Makes ~$100/mo but this month it's on track to make $200, probably due to new year's enthusiasm? 2- Learn Programmatic SEO, a straightforward course to help people identify repeatable keyword patterns an…

These are both really unique and interesting! Curious to know how you've publicised it so far, and if you think spending more time/money on publicity can get them to grow a lot more

All sales comes via organic search traffic. I plan to try and drive more traffic this year through content.

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Post by catonmylap »

sippndipp wrote: post #90

We're doing an newsletter dedicated for Android developers: https://androidweekly.net/ - it was four years without making any money - with ~100k subs it's generating money - everything grew organically

How much is the revenue with 100k subs?

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Post by no_time »

shtack wrote: post #143

I've run http://olodolo.com (it mostly runs itself) since 2018, which lets people buy things on AliExpress using crypto. I often describe it as the only non-scam crypto website :) It's badly in need of fixes and updates, but I still do about $1500-2000 in sales and $300-400 in profit monthly.

Back in the day(2014-2015) I regularly used a service that does the same thing but for steam games.

I try not to think about the exchange rate difference compared to now :^)

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Post by mhaberl »

rozenmd wrote: post #493
halpert wrote: post #483

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you acquire your customers?

Scrappily - any way I can, whether that's content marketing (my preferred means), commenting on forums, twitter, facebook, broadcasting my domain URL via my phone's hotspot, merch/stickers, etc. I'd recommend the book Traction by Gabriel Weinberg for ideas.

Is that Gabriel Weinberg that founded DDG?!

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Post by gremlinsinc »

montenegrohugo wrote: post #373
truculent wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is fantastic! If I may be crass, how does this make money? Just through referral links?

Not crass, I like sharing! We're all here to learn from each other. The monetization model is just referral links to Namecheap, where I get a 10% commission. I want to make that a bit more elegant (especially for people with uBlock Origin, which it doesn't track), and also add a few other referrals (logo makers and maybe hosting). Couldn't think of other ways to monetize this without making it obnoxious (I hate ads,…

you could try being your own nameserver...through namesilo or something...it's like pretty cheap there already per domain, I think if you used their api as a reseller, and upcharged like 15% on each domain's price you could make more than the namecheap commission...

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Post by maxencecornet »

ternaryJimbo wrote: post #427
maxencecornet wrote: post #196

My side project https://playtoearn.one/ is not making $500/month yet, but it's getting there: a tiny bit more than $400 for this month It's getting around 250-300 visitors a day, and in a high paying niche I started using "classic" ads - which were/are making next to nothing - but just signed a deal with a direct client for 400$ for 3 weeks of displaying his game on the site, on the top banner There are so many play-…

How are you getting visitors, are you putting up google ads?

No it's mostly organic google traffic

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Post by montenegrohugo »

kingcharles wrote: post #495
montenegrohugo wrote: post #87

I start tons of projects, and it's always a bother naming them. I didn't find existing domain generators at all useful, and since my background is in AI, I made my own. → https://www.namy.ai It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and that's where the traffic is coming from…

This is great! I tried "chicken burgers for aliens"* and it came up with some fantastic options. * not currently a real business plan

Wait until we make first contact (I'm sure this is scheduled later in 2022)

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Post by pedrogpimenta »

agacera wrote: post #126
buttscicles wrote: post #24

We're making about $600/mo right now working on Oku, which we're building as a social book tracker (and more) and hoping to replace Goodreads with. https://oku.club Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe

That is pretty landing page! Just read that the meaning of oku [1] is 1) private, intimate, and deep; 2) exalted and sacred; and, 3) profound and recondite anyway, your brazilian users will find this funny since oku has the same sound of "o cu" that literally means "the butt hole". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku_(theory)#:~:text=3%20Bound... .

Not really, because the O is only open when alone, or a longer word. This reads Óku, not Uku. At least that's how I read it being Portuguese.

The defunct social network Orkut is a good example of this. It's Órkut, not Urkut.

Of course, none of this matters :)

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